Senior Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering

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The key responsibilities include ensuring yield and quality meet Media Operation goals, monitoring indicators for abnormalities, troubleshooting issues, and coordinating evaluations with minimal supervision. The role also involves managing new product ramping during NPI transfers, identifying potential issues related to yield and quality, collaborating with other teams to address interaction defects, offering guidance to new engineers, and driving specific projects aimed at improving yield, quality, and utilization.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain yield and quality that align with the Media Operation goal and target.
• Monitor the yield and quality indicators to make sure there are no abnormalities, and do troubleshooting for any issues related to yield and quality.
• Coordinate any evaluation related to yield and quality with minimum supervision.
• Accountable for new product ramping during NPI transfer.
• Identify potential yield, quality, and sputter utilization issues for the new product and work closely with related parties to solve the issues in the beginning stage.
• Work closely with other areas to solve any interaction defect issues.
• Provide guidance during working time and share experience with new engineers.
• Drive or handle specific projects for yield/quality or utilization improvement.

REQUIRED:

• Master’s/Bachelor's Degree in Sciences or related field

PREFERRED:

• 3-5 years of relevant working experience

SKILLS:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to tackle complex technical challenges
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams

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